Cream Puff Fragrant Camellia – 3 Gallon Pot

Another fine Ackerman hybrid with a fragrance to die for, ‘Cream Puff’ features double flowers with a wonderful, lemony fragrance rivaling gardenias. The beautiful semi-double to peony form flowers have up to 40 petals surrounding a patch of up to 60 petaloids. Sometimes yellow anthers and creamy filaments are visible. In our north-central Georgia gardens this one blooms from January to March. Attractive dark green foliage provides the perfect backdrop for the flowers. To enjoy the flowers indoors, display several cuttings in a vase or float just one flower in a bowl of water.

Growing 8 to 12 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide depending on pruning, the Cream Puff Camellia can be grown as a shrub or small tree. It’s fragrance makes it a great choice for near patios, decks, porches and other outdoor living spaces. As a shrub it is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or as a hedge or background plant in landscape borders and is especially nice as a corner plant or espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings. As this camellia grows taller, lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive small evergreen tree that serves well as a colorful focal point specimen in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to camellia gardens, fragrance gardens, white theme gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens and woodland borders.

Suggested Spacing:  5-6 feet apart for solid hedge; 10 feet or more apart for space between plants

Camellia adapt well to various soil types however prefer a moist but well-drained acidic soil that is rich in organic matter. Constantly soggy soil is a slow killer. In general, Camellia grows and blooms better in partial shade with some shelter from the hot afternoon sun. Morning sun with afternoon shade or filtered sunlight is perfect. All-day filtered sun is fine.

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